[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] STF 2025

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 2:07 AM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 12:31:28PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> >
> >
> > Le 5 juin 2024 12:18:57 GMT+03:00, "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <
> remi at remlab.net> a écrit :
> > >But by reacting *only* to Vittorio trying to defend himself and
> explicitly (and ineffectively) asking for help from the CC, you look like
> you are attacking the victim and defending the troll.
> >
> > I should have said "the one doing the trolling". But whatever, the CC is
> free to ban me for calling someone a troll.
>
> You said something, others said something. Some people want to use
> somethings
> to have others banned. I dont think thats what the CC is there for.
>

Not quite, we were talking about booths, and Paul started throwing insults
at me and bringing up stuff which the CC did temp-ban people in the past
for. Let's try and avoid being revisionist about the past and pick on the
victim here.


> The goal of the CC is not to ban people, but to make people work
> together AND by happy while doing so!
>

This is wishful thinking, Just a reminder of
https://ffmpeg.org/community.html#Community-Committee-1: the goal of the CC
is to "arbitrage and make decisions when inter-personal conflicts occur in
the project. It will decide quickly and take actions, for the sake of the
project."

I agree that a ban should be the last resort, but if people are allowed to
throw insults and see no repercussions, I really don't see how you can make
people work together and happily so. Maybe I am misunderstanding something,
but your interpretation of the role of the CC seems naive at most and
ineffective at best, and I worry about your role in the CC if you're
effectively granting these toxic elements a pass for their negative
behavior, just because you need to make everybody happy.
-- 
Vittorio